Grumpy Cat

My own little visual study into what exactly makes Grumpy Cat look so grumpy.

Not nearly grumpy enough though...Also, fur.

Figure Studies

I have been doing a bunch of figure studies from Andrew Loomis' amazing book 'Figure Drawing For All It's Worth':

 It's an amazing book, the best I have found when it comes to learning anatomy for artists. Others might prefer other guides, but this one is my personal favorite.
Here are some of my studies:

I'll probably end up filling my sketchbook with these studies.

 I have also been having a lot of fun with a new ink brush-pen I got, some of these studies were done with it.

Late Post and News

Sooo... it's been a while. But I have a great reason! I got a job!
So I'm now an artist at Eyes Wide Games, and I mainly work on the Walking Dead IP.

You can easily find the game on facebook if you are interested.
But as a result, I haven't had much time to work on my own art, and I can't really share pictures of what I have been doing there...

But I have been working on other things! I participated in the Global Game Jam two weeks ago, and the current prototype of the game is available to play online. Here are some pictures of the game, as well as a link as to where you can play it

 

Play It Here!

And of course, I did not do this alone. The whole team worked on the mechanics of the game, I did the art with my friend Rose Peng , Vu Ha coded the whole thing, and Andres Villarreal did the music. You can find more information on the team HERE.

None of my posts are complete without some sketches, so here are random doodles to close this:

Sketchbook and zoo

I have renewed my zoo membership and purchased a mini watercolor set that is easy to carry and use over there. Here are the results from my last trip:

 

 

Well The panda and leopard were practices at home from photos taken there on a previous trip, and the komodo dragon and warthog were done on the spot.

And here are more random hand practices from my sketchbook:

Knights

For a while now I have been studying various visual aspects of medieval knights armor in order to reprodruce them more convincingly. The first ones I am showing here, in pencil, were done a few months ago and really helped understand how the different pieces were put together in order to keep attached to the human body. The other one is more recent, and I'm mainly trying to understand the reflectivity of the metal. I'll probably do more of those, my metals look terrible when rendered from imagination.

And the drawing that prompted me into doing that metal study (admire my 'beautiful' armor from imagination, no references):

More Warhammerz

ATC

I started doing ATC recently (Artist Trading Cards). For those who don't know, these tiny cards (2.5x3.5) are eagerly traded and collected amongst some artists.  I really enjoy them, they're a great way for me to practice various traditional materials without feeling like I'm wasting materials. I have even been doing some exchanges. Once I'm more used to the format, I might even make a few originals for sale.

Here is my personal favorite so far:

It's a watercolor Anders, from DragonAge II 2.5"x3.5"

Anyway, if any of my visitors is interested leave me a message or an e-mail, maybe we could do a trade :)

Gurney Demo and Show

I have had a very interesting past week! First I was able to attend an amazing talk and demo by James Gurney at my former college, and then I was featured in a show in Atlanta.

For those who don't know (where have you been hiding?!) James Gurney is an amazing illustrator who is most famous for writing and illustrating the books 'Dinotopia', has received multiple awards and holds an amazing blog which is incredibly instructive for all artists. The name of the blog is Gurney Journey and can be visited here.

Anyway, here are some photos of James Gurney's demo in which he showed us his method for sketching in watercolor and watercolor pencils:

 James Gurney working

 

 Final sketch

I also sketched him as he was working. He agreed to sigh my sketch at the end of the demo!:

And here are some photos from my show:

I enjoyed the show a lot. I brought my sketchbooks, and for me the most interesting part was watching people flip through them. It was interesting, I would have thought that they would just look through them quickly but instead they looked carefully at every single page. I guess I didn't realize there was so much to look at.